Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. – Marshall McLuhan
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. Theres always more than you can cope with. – Marshall McLuhan
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. – Marshall McLuhan
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. – Marshall McLuhan
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. – Marshall McLuhan
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. – Marshall McLuhan
Money is just the poor mans credit card. – Marshall McLuhan
Money is a poor mans credit card. – Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesnt know the first thing about either. – Marshall McLuhan
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a persons car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. – Marshall McLuhan
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterdays concepts. – Marshall McLuhan
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrists couch. – Marshall McLuhan
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. – Marshall McLuhan
